The respondent, who consented to the divorce suit, however, denied ever being impregnated by her husband.

Mariam, who is a hairdresser, resides at Olodo area of Ibadan.

In her explanation, the respondent argued that she was already three-months pregnant before Bashir wedded or started sleeping with her.

“My Lord, Olusegun Olalekan, the man standing here, is the true father of the child in question.

“I used to travel to Abuja to meet him and he also fathered my first child.

“My father did not want me to marry Olalekan because he is a Christian, but I love him,” Mariam said.

Corroborating his mistress’s statement, Olusegun Olalekan, who said he was a Pastor and Mariam’s concubine, testified that he named the controversial child Olamide, in the hospital.

“Mariam gave the baby’s placenta to me in the hospital and it was with my name that she registered him for prenatal care.

“Her mother is well aware of my union with her daughter since 2010,” Olalekan said.

Mariam’s mother could not deny knowledge of her daughter’s relationship with Olalekan when she was asked in court.

“In their separate testimonies, Bashir’s parents, however, told the court that they received the placenta and took care of it, adding that they never knew that Mariam ever had any baby prior to her wedding to their son.

In his disappointment, Mariam’s father openly disowned his daughter, considering the level of shame which she has brought to the family.

Olalekan finally rejected the option of determining the child’s paternity through a DNA test and signed an undertaking that the child does not belong to him.